Camille has 8 feet of rope. She cuts the rope into 1/3 foot pieces for a science project. How many1/3 foot pieces of rope does she have?
well, each foot of rope has 3 pieces, right ? 1 foot = 3/3
So, how many in 8 feet?
To determine the number of 1/3 foot pieces of rope Camille has, we need to divide the total length of the rope by the length of each piece.
Camille has 8 feet of rope, so we divide that by the length of each piece, which is 1/3 feet.
To divide by a fraction, we need to multiply by the reciprocal of that fraction. So, dividing 8 by 1/3 is the same as multiplying 8 by 3/1.
Multiplying 8 by 3 gives us 24.
Therefore, Camille has 24 pieces of 1/3 foot rope.